GRE Word List
FESTER
to generate pus
The meaning of the word fester is to generate pus.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| halcyon | characterized by happiness, great success, and prosperity : golden |
| perjury | the voluntary violation of an oath or vow either by swearing to what is untrue or by omission to do what has been promised under oath : false swearing |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| vicarious | experienced or realized through imaginative or sympathetic participation in the experience of another |
| implode | to burst inward |
| contentious | likely to cause disagreement or argument |
| deadpan | marked by an impassive matter-of-fact manner, style, or expression |
| lunar | crescent |
| bid | to offer (a price) whether for payment or acceptance |
| pied | of two or more colors in blotches |